cybercurrency
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cybercurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cybercurrencies)
- (rare) Synonym of cryptocurrency.
- 1999, Network World, volume 16, number 15, page 47:
- Remember electronic cash, digital dollars or cybercurrency? The conventional wisdom three years ago was that consumers would never use their credit card numbers on the Internet. So in order for electronic commerce to thrive, highly secure digital money schemes were needed.
- 2000, Delbert Rounds, International Criminal Justice: Issues in a Global Perspective, page 36:
- The emergence of cybercurrency as a future medium of exchange raises a number of new enforcement issues as well as questions of whether reporting requirements would need to be redesigned […]
Usage notes[edit]
- As of early 2024, not found in any major dictionaries other than Wiktionary.